In 3 - 5 minutes, you can help make a wish come true today

Sam Callahan, the son of a Realtor (and my friend & Active Rain member) in Silicon Valley, is 14 years old and has cancer which is not responding to two different types of chemotherapy. His cancer, Ewing's Sarcoma, had metasticized before it was discovered on September 22nd.

Sam writes about his battle with Ewing's Sarcoma on the Sam's Team website: http://www.samsteam.org/About_Sam.html He is an amazing 8th grader with a good attitude who wants to beat this thing. If you read his "about Sam" page, you'll find he's a great writer, too.

Normally, we can feel very helpless to "do anything" besides offer our compassion, thoughts and prayers.

But this time, there IS something you can do, and it only takes a couple of minutes. It may not change how he feels after radiation or chemo, but it will lift his spirits and those of his family and friends to see an outpouring of support. And it will help Sam and his family to make a little goal they've set up for themselves.

In addition to the website, Sam's family & friends have a "fan page" on Facebook. It's called I'm On Sam's Team. Their modest goal is to have 5000 fans by St. Patrick's Day. I'd like to help them get there. As of this moment, they have 2608 fans. They want people to know about Ewing's Sarcoma and they want people to know about Sam and his battle with this cancer.

What To Do: So, my Active Rain friends, I know a lot of you are on Facebook. If not, this might be the right time to join!

Andrea, Molly, Dave, Diane, Diane, Kathy, Al, Karen, Marte, Keith, Rebecca, Dawn ~ Thank you all so much for taking the time to join and (many of you) to comment on the FB page and to encourage your friends to do the same. It's now over 3300 people, so just 1700 to hit the goal: we are 2/3 there! Your support and encouragement, your good thoughts and prayers are all really appreciated by Sam and his family. Bless you all!

Gene - I feel that way, too. Thank you VERY much for reblogging and linking to your FB page.

Aaron - thank you.

Update to all - we are at 3400 members now, that's up 800 since when this post was written. Yesterday it jumped by about 200. We are aiming at 5000 so "only" need about 1600 more by Wednesday. If we only grow by 200 per day, we won't hit our goal. If everyone reblogs, tweets it, and emails friends and relatives, though, I think it will continue to pick up speed and we'll hit it. Thank you for helping us to get this out virally, that's what it will take!!

Your help is so much appreciated. I wish I could take you all to Starbucks as a sign of thanks.... If any of you ask to friend me on FB, please tell me you're from AR and Sam's Team and I'll say yes (ordinarily I am not taking on more real estate folks there) .... Thank you again!

Have him look in to Kangen Water. I don't sell the machine but I know someone who also had cancer and the chemo wasn't working and he quit the chemo and started drinking Kangen Water and he is in remission. They use the machine in hospitals in Asia in their oncology departments.

Jami - I think there are several brands that do the water ionization (and most appear to be a lot less expensive than then Kangen brand). I'd never heard of it before but several people emailed me about it so I will pass that on to Sam's parents. Thanks for the tip.

Jamie - many many thanks for reposting it!

Update: we are now up to 3541 members on the Sam's Team group on Facebook! Almost up 1000 from when this post was written a week ago! Need about 1550 more to hit the goal of 5000. Thanks to ALL for the help!

Maureen - thanks! We're well over 3750 members there. I know we're not hitting the goal of 5000 by today but I'm going to keep at it until we DO hit 5000 and I really, really appreciate your ongoing help!!!!!!

Joan - thank you so much!

Stacey - I am sure it does! Love is always good!

Many many thanks to all of you for your tweets, re-blogs, diggs, stumbled upons and anything else you're doing to make this viral. It's so awesome to see so many stepping up in ways big and small. You guys are the best!!!

Update for everyone who's been helping, praying, sending good wishes etc. - Sam's PET Scan after the radiation treatment came back with some positive news that the tumors have shrunk somewhat (it varies). So that is really good news! He's going to have 2 more rounds of radiation, according to the FB page.

The I'm On Sam's Team group is now up to 3868 members. We didn't hit 5000 by St. Patrick's Day but we grew the number of members by about 1250 in the last 2 weeks!! Thank you all for tweeting, blogging, digging, stumbling and so on - especially for joining the Facebook group and for your prayers and encouragement. Also thanks to so many of you who went an extra step and wrote some encouraging words on the FB group page. Those have been neat to see.

Sam's a great guy and it's nice to know that sooo many of you care. Please continue to spread the word! Thank you all again!!!

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